Retirement Tribute For Babcock On D C House Committee
The District of Columbia House Committee honors Chairman Babcock on his twelve years of service with a silver loving cup presented by Representative Olcott. The Morrell resolution for a Bureau of Commerce and Labor inquiry was laid to rest, and other resolutions praise Babcock and commend Morrell Wiley Betler Blackburn Kihe and clerk Harry W Barney for their dedicated service.
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Babcock
House District Committee
Olcott
New York
Morrell
Bureau of Commerce and Labor
Mr. Olcott
District of Columbia
Morrell Wiley
Betcler Blackburn
Kihe
Harry W Barney
Barney
Lacey Receives Loving Cup Upon Retirement
Representative Lacey of Iowa, chair of the House Public Lands Committee, plans to retire from Congress. On March 4 he was presented a handsome silver loving cup by committee members. Mondell of Wyoming made the presentation speech for the Republicans and Burnett of Alabama spoke for the minority.
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Lacey
Iowa
House Committee On Public Lands
Congress
Mondell
Wyoming
Burnett
Alabama
Miles rate for lawmakers left intact amid protests
Congress members will keep 11 cents per mile, despite a proposed cut. An amendment to reduce the allowance was rejected after a challenge of new legislation. key figures Englebright, Jones, and Humphrey argued for changes while others pressed for salary-based shifts. The session also approved treasury reimbursements for Cuban intervention costs, a post office conference report, and a plan creating an industrial peace committee with a 0,000 fund, alongside noting Roosevelt's Nobel Prize grant.
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Angelbright
California
Jones and Humphres
Washington
Congress
Engebwright
John Sharp Williams
Engulbright
Littauer
Tawney
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
House
Roosevelt
Senator Tillman Lecture Tour At $200 A Night
Senator Benjamin R Tillman of South Carolina begins a lecture tour in Baltimore on Monday, speaking every weekday except three, with nightly pay of 200 dollars. March and April see he in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina, then New England and the Middle West, Pacific Coast by fall. Also notes guided excursions Chicago to Pacific Coast with double berths, no extra charges, itinerary and details from S A Hutchigan, Tourist Department, Chicago.
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Benjamin R Tillman
South Carolina
Baltimore
Congress
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
North Carolina
New England
Middle West
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Union Pacific
Northwestern
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Hutchigan
C & Nw-Union Pacific
Clark St
New Honor for Diplomat Carbo Recalled to Quito for Foreign Affairs
Benor Don Luis Felipe Carbo Ecuador’s minister in Washington is ordered to return to Quito to take over as minister of foreign affairs. He will oversee plans to restore Ecuador’s European credit and negotiate a treaty for Guayaquil sanitation to prevent yellow fever in the Isthmus of Panama. Carbo’s Washington duties will be handled by a secretary, likely his son.
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Benor Don Luis Felipe Carbo
Ecuador
Washington
Alfaro
Europe
Guayaquil
Panama
Chile
Senor Carbo
Quito
Carbo
Council of Ministers
Interior and Public Instruction
United States
Mexico
Colombia
Beaudorean Senate
International Bureau of American Republics
Status of supply bills in Congress as budget battles loom
Senate and House reached partial accord on post-office and agricultural budgets while several Senate amendments remain in dispute. Key items include clerical pay scales, plans for a New York post office, pneumatic tubes contracts in major cities, and rural carrier pay. Differences persist on naval station funding, additional agricultural college appropriations, and sundry civil bill items. The session yielded some settlements such as Lynchburg public building funds and lighthouse provisions, with conferees still negotiating remaining items.
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Senate
Port Royal
Tillman
New York City
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Exsas City
Pittsburg
San Francise
Fifteenth Street
Botanic Garden
Department of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington
Lynchburg
Puget Sound
Savannah
New Bedford
Mass
New Orleans
Gull Island
Lake Superior
Wisbut
Creel confirms Mexico governor candidacy rumor
Ambassador Creel of Mexico yesterday confirmed a dispatch from El Paso stating that friends have presented his name for Chihuahua governor in the June elections. He said his action depends on developments and that he will serve his country where he is most useful, noting he may stay in Washington if he can best serve Mexico from there.
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Creel
Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Washington
Rox
Politica
Through Bill For Cattle By Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in favor of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas against the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway and others. It held that a through route and joint through rates for beef cattle from points on the International and Great Northern Railroad in Texas to New Orleans must be established and maintained. The decision covers public interest but leaves open questions of reasonableness for a separate proceeding.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Prouty
Railway Mail Promotions Announced by Postmaster General
The Postmaster General announced promotions within the Railway Mail Service. Alexander Grant advances from resistant general superintendent to general superintendent, George F Stone from chief clerk to assistant general superintendent, and John W Holliday from chief clerk of the division to chief clerk in the Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General.
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Post Office
Alexander Grant
George F Stone
John W Holliday
Genzal
Forty One Dismissed At Government Mail Bag Repair Shop
Forty-one older workers including Civil War veterans and widows were discharged at the government mail bag repair shop yesterday around 8 o clock. Police intervened after two women led disturbances and abuse of the foreman, as Superintendent W B Severe arrived to quell the scene. Many mourned the loss of their wages, while others defended the government’s action amid claims of widespread job abundance. The event follows prior Navy Yard cutbacks and an October personnel investigation led by Theodore Ingalls, Carter B. Keene, and G. F. Shaw.
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Dlsmissal
W. B. Severe
Cleveland
Postal Service
Grand Army of the Republic
Navy Yard
Severe
Post-office Department
Theodore Ingalls
Carter B Keene
G. F. Shaw
Public Printer Stillings Denies Resignation Rumors
Rumors of Public Printer Charles A Stillings resigning circulate amid government printing office disturbances. President Roosevelt is said to question the move, with past action regretted. Stillings denies any truth to reports of departing Voluntarily or by request.
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Pblic
Stillings
Prees
Roosevelt
Charles A Stillings
New York
Oscar J. Ricketts
Palmer
Ricketts
Venezuela confirms killing of two Americans with Gen Paredes
State Department received an official Caracas dispatch reporting the execution of Gen Antonio Paredes and his followers by Venezuelan guards. The Interior’s earlier report lacked identities for the two American victims. No inquiries from Americans about these potential associates have reached Washington.
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Paredes
Antonio Paredes
State Department
Caracas
Interior
Venezuela
Consul General Rodgers Urges Flour-Only Aid to China
With famine shortages and rising prices, Consul General Rodgers in Shanghai, now in charge of famine relief, asks the State Department to limit future shipments to flour. He reports no improvement in famine conditions.
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Rodgers
Shanghai
State Department
Morgan Co buys large issue of railroad and line notes
J P Morgan & Co purchased today the public issues of J P Morgan and Co and Atlantic Coast Line notes totaling 21 5 million dollars. The Atlantic Coast Line issue entirely and 5 million of Louisville and Nashville notes have been offered for public subscription. A million and a half of Louisville and Nashville notes were sold privately. Lake Naval Station bids delayed from April 1 to May due to few bidders. Estimated cost around 72000.
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J. P. Morgan
New York
Mar. J
Louisville and Nashville
J. P. Morgan & Co
Definition of student set by Straus for Chinese admissions
Secretary Straus frames a new definition of student to apply to Chinese seeking admission to the United States. The old rule was deemed ambiguous and the revised criteria outline pursuit of regular study, attendance at recognized institutions, preparation for a profession, or liberal education with focus on special subjects.
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United States
Straus
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